Title : Serum calcitonin may falsely estimate tumor burden in chronic hypercalcemia: a case of prostatic and multiple bone metastases from medullary thyroid cancer.

Pub. Date : 2014 Mar

PMID : 23985043






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1 Although the patient had multiple MTC metastases, basal and calcium-stimulated serum Ct levels were not significantly elevated, measuring 22.7 pg/mL (normal <10 pg/mL) and 22.1 pg/mL, respectively. Calcium calcitonin related polypeptide alpha Homo sapiens
2 CONCLUSIONS: A chronic hypercalcemic state may exhaust Ct reserves and diminish the Ct response to an acute intravenous calcium injection. Calcium calcitonin related polypeptide alpha Homo sapiens